Post-doctoral Fellow: Coastal Wetland Carbon Sequestration in a Warmer Climate
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellow to investigate the biogeochemical responses of a tidal brackish marsh to ecosystem warming and elevated CO2. The successful applicant will be part of an interdisciplinary team that includes biogeochemists, microbial ecologists, and modelers. Our goal is to actively manipulate air and soil temperature (to 1.5 m soil depth), and model responses at both at an ecosystem and regional scale. The research will be conducted at the Global Change Research Wetland (G-CREW), an NSF-LTREB site and home to three related tidal marsh global change experiments (http://serc.si.edu/GCREW). The site is located on the campus of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, a 2,650 hectare complex of upland forest, farmland and wetlands (www.serc.si.edu). Many of the Center's 100+ full-time employees commute from nearby Annapolis, MD and Washington, DC. This is a one year, grant-funded position with continuation for 1.5 years (2.5 years total) given satisfactory performance. Candidates with research interests in biogeochemistry or microbial ecology are preferred. The position comes with a stipend of $48,000 per year plus a health care allowance. Please e-mail a short letter of interest that describes your experience and qualifications (1-2 pages), CV, and list of references by 1 Oct 2015 to Dr. Patrick Megonigal (megonig...@si.edu<mailto:megonig...@si.edu>). Review of applications will begin immediately, and the search will continue until a suitable applicant is found. The candidate is expected to start between January and March 2016.
